Hollande, Wiesenthal leaders, weigh anti- Semitism

PARIS (Press Release) — Continuing threats from French-born Jihadists returning from Syria was the main issue raised today by leaders of an international delegation of Jewish leaders from the Simon Wiesenthal Center during a meeting with French President Francois Hollande. The 20-member delegation is in Paris to inaugurate the Wiesenthal Center’s new historic exhibition on […]

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Tifereth Israel switches to pay- what- you- like dues

SAN DIEGO (Press Release) –– Tifereth Israel Synagogue in the San Diego neighborhood of San Carlos is breaking the mold in local synagogue financing by eliminating mandatory membership dues and asking congregants to contribute what they wish. Administrators at the Conservative congregation are confident that members’ voluntary contributions will be more than enough to sustain

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Jewish Religion, San Diego County

JNS news briefs: June 11, 2014

Netanyahu and president-elect Rivlin seek to put differences aside (Israel Hayom/Exclusive to JNS.org) Israeli president-elect MK Reuven Rivlin and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met privately Wednesday to discuss their future work plans. The two have been bitter rivals despite being members of the same party, Likud. But as prime minister and president, their relationship cannot

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Travel and Food

V.A., Bergdahl and Hamas — 3 Obama scandals

By Isaac Yetiv, Ph.D. LA JOLLA, California — “Avalanche,” I called it years ago, “an avalanche of scandals in the Obama administration.” That appellation is now a misnomer , depasse and risible. It has now assumed  the monstrous proportion of a destructive hurricane, of a devastating earthquake, tremor following tremor. No good news is coming from the

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International, Middle East, USA

House rejects bill for Bob Hope Airport curfew

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)–The House of Representatives came within a few votes of allowing the Bob Hope Airport to adopt a curfew on an amendment to the Transportation, Housing, and Urban Development (THUD) Appropriations Act proposed by Reps. Adam Schiff (D-Burbank) Brad Sherman (D-Sherman Oaks), and Henry Waxman (D-Los Angeles). The amendment was defeated by

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Travel and Food, USA

Deutch: Hearings needed on Hamas- P.L.O accord

WASHINGTON, D.C. — Congressman Ted Deutch (D-Florida), Ranking Democrat on the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, issued this statement after joining Subcommittee Chairman Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (FL-27) on a letter to Secretary of State John Kerry questioning the U.S. decision to work with a Palestinian unity government backed by Hamas and

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Middle East, USA

Cohen wants crack cocaine users’ prison terms reduced

WASHINGTON, DC (Press Release) – Congressman Steve Cohen (D-Tennessee), Ranking Member of the House Judiciary Subcommittee on the Constitution and Civil Justice, on Tuesday, June 10,  joined Attorney General Eric Holder in urging the U.S. Sentencing Commission to make certain non-violent drug offenders eligible for reduced sentences if they are incarcerated in federal prisons under

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USA

Boxer, others, to DOT: Ban e-smokes on airplanes

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Press Release)– Democratic U.S. Senators Barbara Boxer (California), Dick Durbin (Illinois), Tom Harkin (Iowa, Richard Blumenthal (Connecticut), Sherrod Brown (Ohio), Jack Reed (Rhode Island) and Edward J. Markey (Massachusetts) on Tuesday, June 10, urged the Department of Transportation to finally prohibit the use of e-cigarettes on airplanes. DOT first proposed a ban more

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Science, Medicine, & Education, Travel and Food, USA